''Soft Space'' is the second album by keyboardist

Jeff Lorber Jeffrey H. Lorber (born November 4, 1952) is an American keyboardist, composer, and record producer. After six previous nominations, Lorber won his first Grammy Award on January 28, 2018 for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album for ''Prototype'' ...

as leader of his band The Jeff Lorber Fusion. Released in 1978, this album featured special guest artists

Chick Corea Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (June 12, 1941 – February 9, 2021) was an American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader and occasional percussionist. His compositions "Spain (instrumental), Spain", "500 Miles High", "La Fiesta", "Armando's Rhumba" ...

and

Joe Farrell Joseph Carl Firrantello (December 16, 1937 – January 10, 1986), known as Joe Farrell, was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist who primarily performed as a saxophonist and flutist. He is best known for a series of albums under his own name o ...

. This was the group's last effort for

Inner City Records Inner City Records was a jazz record company and record label, label founded by Irv Kratka in 1976 in New York City. The company was a division of Music Minus One and also owned the label Classic Jazz. It started with reissues, then moved on to ...

before moving on to

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the following year.

Track listing

Personnel

The Jeff Lorber Fusion *

– acoustic piano,

Fender Rhodes The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. Like a conventional piano, the Rhodes generates sound with keys and hammers, but instead of strings, t ...

Moog synthesizer The Moog synthesizer ( ) is a modular synthesizer invented by the American engineer Robert Moog in 1964. Moog's company, R. A. Moog Co., produced numerous models from 1965 to 1981, and again from 2014. It was the first commercial synthesizer ...

Oberheim Four Voice Oberheim is an American synthesizer manufacturer founded in 1969 by Tom Oberheim. Beginning in 1975, Oberheim developed some of the first commercially available polyphonic synthesizers and was a prominent synthesizer and drum machine manufacture ...

* Lester McFarland – electric bass * Dennis Bradford – drums * Terry Layne –

flute The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone Special guests *

–

Minimoog The Minimoog is an analog synthesizer first manufactured by Moog Music between 1970 and 1981. Designed as a more affordable, portable version of the modular Moog synthesizer, it was the first synthesizer sold in retail stores. It was first popul ...

solo (1), Minimoog (5) *

– soprano saxophone (2), flute (3) Additional musicians * Dean Reichert – acoustic guitar, electric guitars * Bruce Smith –

conga The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba. Congas are staved like barrels and classified into three types: quinto (lead drum, highest), tres dos or tres golpes (middle), and tumba or salidor (lowest ...

s, percussion * Ron Young – congas, percussion

Production

* Jeff Lorber – producer * Marlon McClain – producer * Dave Dixon – engineer * Reggie Dozier – engineer * Gilbert Kong – mastering * Mathew Cohen – cover design, artwork * Leo Bliok – liner design * Ancil Nance – photography Studios * Recorded at

ABC Recording Studios Lion Share Studios is a recording studio at 8255 Beverly Boulevard in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Established by Kenny Rogers in 1981 in the former location of the ABC Recording Studios, Lion Share has been the site of ...

(Hollywood, California) and Ripcord Studios (Vancouver, Washington). * Mastered at

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(New York City, New York).

Charts

References

External links

Jeff Lorber-Soft Space at Discogs
{{Authority control 1978 albums Jeff Lorber albums Inner City Records albums